{"id":21343,"date":"2010-03-10T10:16:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T15:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=21343"},"modified":"2013-12-15T03:52:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T08:52:47","slug":"marketers-think-of-new-reasons-to-buy-giant-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/03\/10\/marketers-think-of-new-reasons-to-buy-giant-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Marketers Think of New Reasons to Buy Giant Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"

E. W. sent in a three-page internet ad for the 2010 Chevy Traverse.\u00a0 The Traverse seats eight, but the ad campaign suggests that it is perfect for just four.\u00a0 E.W. offers the play-by-play:<\/p>\n

The first image of the ad shows a young boy and girl in the first row of seats in an SUV.\u00a0 They are separated by at least a foot of space.\u00a0 The young boy is poking the girl (presumably his sister) in the shoulder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The following images show the two kids in various seating arrangements where they are always separated by the seating rows (one in front and one in back).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The end tag (car-two) states “Finally, you can separate them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“To summarize the ad in my words,” said E.W., “Buy a car that can seat 6 kids because you can’t control your 2.”<\/p>\n

Or, in my words, in the face of an economic crisis peppered with sky-high fuel prices, we are desperate for another way to try to convince Americans that they need giant cars.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

E. W. sent in a three-page internet ad for the 2010 Chevy Traverse.\u00a0 The Traverse seats eight, but the ad campaign suggests that it is perfect for just four.\u00a0 E.W. offers the play-by-play: The first image of the ad shows a young boy and girl in the first row of seats in an SUV.\u00a0 They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,702,23703,221],"class_list":["post-21343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-energy","tag-marketing","tag-cars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21343"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60404,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21343\/revisions\/60404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}